Chapter 17 You Know I Won’t Like Anyone Else
Winter has arrived. A heavy snowfall last night wrapped the entire village in a white veil. A thin layer of ice formed on the windows, and the workers who used to be there were no longer any signs in the rice fields outside.
Jiang Wanying got up early, and when she saw it was snowing, she insisted on making a snowman in the yard. Xu Hongping was afraid that she would get cold, so she took out the gloves she had just knitted a few days ago and put them on her.
The couple stood in the yard, watching the little girl squatting in the snow and adding a nose and eyes to the snowman. She also used branches to add a pair of hands to the snowman. It looked so lifelike and beautiful.
This is the south, unlike the north where winter is long and unoccupied, and Jiang Dongfang was soon called out. The village received a notice to send a team to build a reservoir.
As the captain of the production team, Jiang Dongfang naturally had to take the lead.
Jiang Wanying stayed at home with her aunt.
This place is not like the 21st century. Almost no one has three meals a day. They eat one meal in the morning and then go out to work, and then come back to eat dinner in the evening.
For Jiang Wanying, who eats frequently, this is unbearable.
Because Jiang Wanying had been thin since she was a child, the elders fed her three meals a day. As a result, in the whole village, only the Jiang family cooked at noon.
There was not much to eat in winter, and most of the food was sweet potatoes. Xu Hongping steamed the sweet potatoes in a steamer and baked a few pancakes, planning to send them to Jiang Dongfang later.
Jiang Wanying helped her light the fire in the kitchen while drying her wet gloves. "Aunt, can you teach me how to knit a scarf?"
She had a lot of supplies, but she was really bad at needlework.
Xu Hongping jokingly said, "Okay, but why do you suddenly want to learn this?"
Jiang Wanying naturally wouldn't tell her about her plan to make money, so she made an excuse: "I saw that the gloves you knit are very beautiful, so I wanted to try knitting a scarf myself."
"If you want a scarf, I can knit it for you!"
"Aunt! Just teach me, I want to do it myself." Jiang Wanying said coquettishly, and Xu Hongping had no idea what to do with her. Her eyes were full of doting, "Okay, okay, I'll teach you after I finish making the pancakes."
"Aunt is so nice!"
Jiang Wanying was a quick learner. She mastered the technique after Xu Hongping taught her once. She even pestered her to teach her several more weaving techniques. Jiang Wanying was very satisfied as she watched herself finish the first step of weaving. These techniques were enough for her.
"My dear, now that you have learned it, just stay at my house and weave well. I will go and bring some food to your uncle." Xu Hongping packed the sweet potatoes and pancakes in a bamboo basket and prepared to go out.
When Jiang Wanying heard this, she immediately snatched the bamboo basket away and said, "Let me deliver it!"
"That's not right. The road outside is slippery."
"Aunt, just let me go!" Jiang Wanying wanted to go out for some fresh air, but she stayed at home by the fire until her bones were softened.
Xu Hongping had no choice but to give it to her. Before she left, she repeatedly reminded her to be careful on the road and to watch the road carefully.
The reservoir is not far from the Jiang family. Although it snowed heavily last night, there are many deep and shallow footprints on this road. Jiang Wanying can step on those footprints without worrying about getting her shoes wet.
When she got there, the villagers were almost done with work, and only a few responsible persons were gathered together, discussing something.
In addition to some people from the production team, the educated youth also came, including Li Beibei.
She stood out among a group of female educated youth. The other educated youth all had their hair braided into short buns, but she had a messy, short hair that made her look particularly capable.
According to the plot, the character of the heroine Li Beibei should have been the kind of motivated and capable strong woman, but who knew she would be destroyed like this.
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